Commandline script for converting .doc to .txt

[toowoombalinux]

G'day,
Very basic script that need to be in the same directory as the .doc file. Oh and Abiword needs to be installed.

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#!/bin/sh
for FILENAME in *.doc
do :
  BASEFILENAME=`basename $FILENAME .doc`
  abiword --to=$BASEFILENAME.abw $BASEFILENAME.doc
done
for FILENAME in *.abw
do :
  BASEFILENAME=`basename $FILENAME .abw`
  abiword --to=$BASEFILENAME.txt $BASEFILENAME.abw
done

For a cleaner txt file (which you may use with speech synth) I found it better to convert to .abw then convert .abw to .txt.

Hopes this helps.
Cheers
Martin

[aragon]

you might want to also look at

antiword: http://www.winfield.demon.nl/

and

docx2txt: http://docx2txt.sourceforge.net/

aragon